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Return Of Satan · Owls Woods Graves

Return Of Satan · Owls Woods Graves
EXERCISE 3 OF 43
Groove C -- Chorus
82 / 152 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART A
PART B
PART I
CHORUS 3
9 groovesCBIAV+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Return Of Satan on drums

152 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 3:20 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
68/100

hi-hat through bars 3-24, snare through bars 25-26, hi-hat through bars 27-32, snare through bars 33-34, hi-hat through bars 35-48 and snare through bars 49-58, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 7 and 9, and 16 more places -- 44.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    3
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---x-----------|
Return Of Satan -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 5, 13, 37, 45, 101, 105 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 30-58 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part A and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 79-107 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and the Chorus 3 -- 10 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Return Of Satan?

185 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Return Of Satan hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Return Of Satan?

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 5, 13, 37, 45, 101, 105 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED